Movie Reviews

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"Knock at the Cabin" - Film Review
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"Knock at the Cabin" - Film Review

Knock at the Cabin is middle-of-the-road fare for Shyamalan. It doesn’t reach his directorial heights, but is well above his lows. If nothing else, it’s still refreshing to see a director consistently swinging for the fences.

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"Skinamarink" - Film Review
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"Skinamarink" - Film Review

It’s not the sort of film that can be casually turned on at a sleepover, nor will it please every crowd. However, for those who allow themselves to exist in the world of Skinamarink, it will be impossible to shake. 

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Slamdance: "Silent Love" Review
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Slamdance: "Silent Love" Review

It’s difficult to define “family.” When you’re young, you think it’s all about blood relations, but it’s only as you grow older that you learn it’s about who shows up for you. When life is hard and you’re at your lowest, it’s who is standing there to keep you afloat. Silent Love answers those questions with its heart on its sleeve.

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"Back to the Wharf"  -  Film Review
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"Back to the Wharf"  -  Film Review

All of Back to the Wharf’s major plot points rely on a shared history between the two lead characters. There should be unbearable tension between Li Tang and Song Hao. Former friends whose lives could not be more different because of a decision that neither of them made fifteen years ago.

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“Missing” - Film Review
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“Missing” - Film Review

Missing is a time capsule of our modern digital age that proves the love between a mother and a daughter is fierce, confusing, and timeless.

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"Tár" - Film Review
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"Tár" - Film Review

Tár does not make heavy-handed accusations about the state of our society and people in power. Instead, it asks the audience to look at Lydia, to see her as the totality of who she is.

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"EO" - Film Review
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"EO" - Film Review

EO is a stark and oftentimes angry look at humanity’s impact on the natural world. More than the human characters’ treatment of EO, it’s the film’s duality of man-made spaces vs. the open grasslands of nature.

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"Aftersun" - Film Review
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"Aftersun" - Film Review

Aftersun is left open-ended, and that’s a perfect conclusion to this portrait of a father and daughter relationship. It speaks to the inability of a child to truly understand their parents, no matter how valiantly they try.

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"The Banshees of Inisherin" - Film Review
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"The Banshees of Inisherin" - Film Review

Loneliness is isolating, painfully so. You can be surrounded by people and still feel the stifling ache of being alone. The things that help keep despair at bay (friends, music, animals) are the most fragile and need the most care. And yet, those are the aspects of life that people view as frivolous. The Banshees of Inisherin fluctuates from deeply sad to darkly humorous, a mirror of life itself.

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"The Fabelmans" - Film Review
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"The Fabelmans" - Film Review

The Fabelmans should feel like a memory, but the images are too crystal clear. There’s no grain, no warm hues, no softness. The film is too digital, too modern, too sterile for the emotion it’s trying to invoke in its audience.

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"She Said" - Film Review
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"She Said" - Film Review

She Said should have been scathing, a full-blown, overflowing, boiling pot of rage. Instead, it’s lukewarm, never as damning as it could be and never as critical as it should be.

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